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Presentation Model (MVVM) Good Practices

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11 May 2010CPOL16 min read 68.2K   944   76  
Showing some good practices that can be applied to the Presentation Model/MVVM pattern.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.ComponentModel.Design;
using System.Reflection;

namespace PresentationModelBase
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Base class for all PresentationModels.
    /// </summary>
    public abstract class PresentationModel : IPresentationModel
    {
        static PresentationModel()
        {
            _serviceLocator = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetData("servicelocator") as IServiceProvider;
            if (_serviceLocator == null)
                _serviceLocator = CreateProvider();
        }

        private static IServiceProvider CreateProvider()
        {
            ServiceCreator creator = new ServiceCreator();
            return new ServiceContainer(creator);
        }

        #region Fields

        static IServiceProvider _serviceLocator;

        #endregion

        #region Methods

        protected T Get<T>()
        {
            return (T)_serviceLocator.GetService(typeof(T));
        }

        public virtual void InvokeMethod(string methodName, object[] parameters, params Type[] typeParameters)
        {
            MethodInfo currentMethod = this.GetType().GetMethod(methodName, BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
            if (currentMethod == null)
                throw new ArgumentException("Cannot find this method");

            Type returnType = currentMethod.ReturnType;
            if (returnType != typeof(void))
                throw new ArgumentException("Methods called by this command must return void");

            if (currentMethod.IsGenericMethodDefinition)
                currentMethod = currentMethod.MakeGenericMethod(typeParameters);

            currentMethod.Invoke(this, parameters);
        }

        #endregion

        #region Properties

        private string _displayName;
        public virtual string DisplayName
        {
            get { return _displayName; }
            set { _displayName = value; }
        }

        #endregion

        #region INotifyPropertyChanged Members

        private PropertyChangedEventHandler _handler;
        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged
        {
            add { _handler += value; }
            remove { _handler -= value; }
        }

        protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
        {
            if (_handler != null)
            {
                var e = new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName);
                _handler(this, e);
            }
        }

        #endregion

        #region IDisposable Members

        public void Dispose()
        {
            OnDispose();
        }

        protected virtual void OnDispose() { }

        #endregion
    }
}

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